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Season 4, Episode 12 Rick Nelson

First Aired: February 17, 1979

Host Rick Nelson wanders into the “Twilight Zone” and gets lost in a maze of '50s sitcoms; Bill Murray hosts a Spanish game show in which contestants choose which actors are the most macho. Point/Counterpoint topic: cocaine.

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